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Originally Posted by Paul in S.A TX
The only Texas city with really big suburbs is Dallas/Ft Worth. Houston to much lesser degree.
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I'm a bit of a pop stat bug and happened to notice this thread today. Actually Austin also has big suburbs (or what ever you want to call them). Austin city proper is something like 700k while metro is 1.7. So its suburbs are bigger than its city proper by 1/.7 = 1.4 times.
You could run similar stats for Dallas and Houston. I think SA is the anomaly of the big 4 of TX - its metro is about the same size as the city proper. Houston is ~2.2M for city vs 6M for metro, so its burbs are 2.7 times bigger than city proper. Dallas is a total mixed bag. (caveat, pop figures are rough estimates from memory)